Need for owl guards?
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Laura Dore
- Posts: 89
- Joined: Tue May 22, 2012 6:15 pm
- Location: Pflugerville, TX
Are owl guards still needed with extended compartments on a Trio house?
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Emil Pampell-Tx
- Posts: 6743
- Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2003 1:26 pm
- Location: Tx, Richmond (SW of Houston)
- Martin Colony History: First started in Gretna, La in 1969 with a small homemade house, have had martins ever since at 2 different homes in Texas
Maybe the owls can still grab a martin when they are looking into the housing. If I had your setup, I would enclose that Trio in a wire cage, using 2in x 4in wire. That will clear all doubts if you have a lot of owls.
PMCA Member, 250 gourds, 6 poles, 2traps
they say owls can rip the front doors right off of a house. gourds they shake them and spook them out. that is why I caged mine. that way they can not look inside to spook them and they can not touch it to shake them or rip anything off. I would like to think owls have easier pray to catch. but then I think they have all night and if bored and in a mood for a game why not a little bit more of a challenge for a meal? so the owls scare me and I caged it. been happy since. except nest checks are harder.
2008 first year 1 pair. 2009 3 pair. 2010 7 pair. 2011 20 pair . 2012 44 pair 280 eggs 210 fledged. 2013 67 pair. 2014?